DJ Kim (Novak, that is) gets set to spin some platters on the hi-fi in Richard Quine's 1954 Pushover. That's Fred MacMurray's back in the back. Pushover, Novak's first credited…
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These overdetermined wordplay-on-oldies-song-lyrics blog post headlines don't write themselves, you know. They sometimes take weeks, even months of preparation.Mr. Jones (and aren't you glad I didn't title the post "Mr.…
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Freddie Mercury, perhaps singing "Bicycle Race." Who can say. My esteemed colleague and occasional friendly sparring partner Richard Brody notes today that the "Who killed the movies: Jaws or Star…
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I wrote at some length in the fall of last year about Alain Resnais' remarkable new film Wild Grass, which had then premiered at The New York Film Festival, which…
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Since the arrival of the Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1964 Red Desert, I've been watching that picture a lot. And no, it sure doesn't get old. But…
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A concatenation of unusual psychic circumstances compels me to consider one of the oddest giallos ever, 1968's Death Laid An Egg, starring the above-pictured Gina Lollabrigida and Ewa Aulin, and…
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